The railroads behind today’s U.S. rail trails
Steve Glischinski Match the initials below to the Map of the Month in the May 2011 issue of Trains Magazine.…
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Name No. Type Builder Year built Peppersass 1 Campbell, Whittier & Co. – 1866 Mt. Washington 1 0-2-2-0 Manchester Loco.…
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In addition to everything else the American Civil War might have been, it was also the first reliably documented major…
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This landscape view of the Colorado & South Eastern is full of railroad and pictorial interest, hallmarks of Charles Clegg’s…
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Click the image to download this interactive PDF. It ’s not likely that Trains readers would immediately recognize the significance…
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Santa Fe’s premier train, the Chicago-Los Angeles Super Chief, was the first to get dome cars. Santa Fe called them…
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Sign over car shop. Employee notifications are posted in English and French. Bob Johnston This unusual RDC4 originally built for…
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Ringling’s Blue Unit circus train exits Huntsman Canyon at Moapa, Nev., June 15, 2010, oln its way to Las Vegas.…
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With its restoration complete but its boiler jacket incomplete, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 tests on Sept. 20, 1979.…
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Click the image to download this interactive PDF. Dick Steinheimer knew an era was coming to an end in the…
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Guards armed with shotguns keep scrap thieves at bay while locomotives are cut-up at an outdoor railroad museum near Johannesburg,…
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Anniversaries! Trains magazine has celebrated its longevity with special reports to look back over railroading’s rich history. Download the two…
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